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Domain Sharding. Loading files from multiple subdomains so that more connections may be established. The increase in parallel file transfers adds to server connection overhead. Image Sprites. Combining image files to reduce requests. The file must be loaded before any image from the file can be shown, and the large image file ties up RAM. Combining Files. CSS and JavaScript files are often combined to reduce the number of requests. This makes the user wait for files before any of it can run and consumes additional RAM. Inlining. CSS and JavaScript code, or even images, are placed directly into the HTML, reducing connections but using additional RAM and delays page rendering until the HTML is finished downloading. Cookieless Domains. Static resources like images, CSS and JavaScript files don’t require cookies, so many developers started sending these from a cookieless domai...